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Head of Impact - Africa

reach52
Full-time
On-site
Cape Town Cape Town South Africa

52% of the world can’t access essential healthcare: we’re a business that does something about it. Join us. 


reach52 is dedicated to reaching the 52% of the world without access to essential healthcare. The social-business model started by training health workers to run data-driven public health campaigns (funded by donors and B2B partners; with campaigns over 20 health topics run by over 16,500 health workers in India, Indonesia, Kenya, South Africa and the Philippines); but has now expanded to include distribution of affordable, high-quality essential medicine that lowers out-of-pocket health costs, and provides sustainable revenue to fund the public health activities. reach52 is now near-nationwide across India, and continues expansion across Asia and Africa.


Why work with us? We are challenging established business norms, with a new value proposition to build a socially-minded, sustainable models that can serve half the planet. You get to be creative, move fast, own truly important things, grow, learn, and help people. We’re not a charity, we are redesigning how affordable healthcare is delivered through truly innovative, efficient business and service delivery models.


We already work with over half of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, a number of major NGOs, national and local governments, and have footholds in six markets. We have a great team, and we will be expanding rapidly over the next year/s and entering a number of new markets, particularly in Africa, and launching a number of new innovations and services that help us enable our mission at-scale.



Responsibilities


  • Involvement in Africa management team - strategy, direction, operating plans, OKRs
  • Building Impact as a continent-wide organization - building our core structure for the region
  • Supporting local data collection and localisation of our plans - including overall accountability for delivery and program management
  • Sourcing, evaluating and overall management of any implementing partners that we might use to support out Impact programs
  • Driving and owning all supporting functions (such as medical education or public health program design, content, etc)
  • Working on partnerships, fundraising and other critical activities to enable the team as a whole
  • Oversee and ensure rigorous monitoring and evaluation of our activities across the region / globally
  • Represent reach52 at conferences, events and external engagement
  • Support recruitment, team management, coaching and professional development and
  • Continually look to innovate and introduce better ways of working across the business

Requirements


  • We’re reasonably sure you should have a profile like this, but we can flex sometimes: 
  • 10+ years in public health - ideally with a mix of program delivery, some social business exposure, and extensive experience in innovative new service delivery models
  • 5+ years experience in team management and leadership positions with knowledge of strategy through to operational execution
  • Extensive knowledge of health / healthtech and emerging markets operations
  • If applicable, lead in-country/regional Implementation team and field force and ensure delivery of health campaign
  • Support government partnership development and engagement locally, regionally and globally – including multilaterals and donors, where applicable
  • Funder / partner management for ongoing programs and reporting oversight, if there is an external funder
  • Experience in a start-up-like setting and demonstrated ability to think quickly and independently
  • High autonomy, entrepreneurial mindset. Ability to see the big picture and then own the details
  • A passion for healthcare access, innovation, and social impact – 52% of the world can’t access healthcare, our goal is to solve this, and you need to inspire people to push towards our mission
  • An agile, hardworking and growth mindset, able to thrive in a fast-paced environment – grow, pivot, grow…
  • Robust analytical skills and an ability to process complex information to define clear direction and strategy – we love data-driven impact models
  • Love dynamism and an ever-changing set of challenges and projects to work on– we have a lot going on, but its working!